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It looks like the Fiesta will be available within a week. They are waiting on the State Police Inspection which is required for any salvage vehicle in Virginia. The one they finished first actually had relatively minor damage to the front end. No air bags deployed so the collision was not that bad.
The car will have about 3000 miles on it when they offer it for sale and they will be asking $10k for the car, about a $6-7k discount off of the new price. It is the hatchback with AT, Not sure if its the SE or SES model. I'll check that tomorrow. I should be able to sell one bike ( I have 4) and the Maxima for something around $6-7k so my out of pocket cash will be around 3-4k with fewer vehicles to insure and pay for tags, but higher property taxes. I sold a non road worthy bike last Saturday for $900.
Averaging 28 MPG in the Maxima and hopefully a little over 40 in the Fiesta, with the Fiesta being basically a new car with less than 3k miles, while the Max is at 144k now, I am leaning toward buying the Fiesta. I will still have a bike that can average close to 60 MPG, but my wife and I can both use the Fiesta to keep the miles down on her Sorento.
While I have the ability to work on cars, age makes it tiresome and painful when the work gets extensive. It will be nice to not have to worry about some repair coming up on the Maxima that would basically be money down the toilet.
I still have to see if I actually fit in the Fiesta. It seemed like the front seat was almost not capable of going back far enough to get comfortable fro my just over 6 feet and 205 pound frame. I don't need to have collision insurance since it will be paid for and I haven't had an accident that was my fault in almost 25 years.
The car had no frame damage, no bondo, and all of the parts are OE Ford replacements.
regards
Mech
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